{"id":94232,"date":"2020-06-21T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94232"},"modified":"2020-06-21T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T18:09:05","slug":"the-south-carolina-department-of-health-and-environmental-control-dhec-today-announced-907-new-covid19-confirmed-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94232","title":{"rendered":"The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 907 new Covid19 confirmed cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 907 new confirmed cases and 1 new probable case of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, and 9 additional confirmed deaths. There are currently 692 hospital beds occupied by patients who have either tested positive or are under investigation for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of people confirmed cases to 24,661, probable cases to 32, confirmed deaths to 653, and zero probable deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the deaths occurred in elderly individuals from Chester (1), Colleton (1), Florence (2), and Richland (2) counties, and three of the deaths occurred in middle-aged individuals from Richland (1), Spartanburg (1), and Sumter (1) counties. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scdhec.gov\/news-releases\/south-carolina-announces-latest-covid-19-update-june-21-2020\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DHEC announced on Sunday 907 new cases of COVID-19 and 9 new deaths, as the state total nears 25,000 total cases and state death toll hits 653.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rEAsMOpq4R\">https:\/\/t.co\/rEAsMOpq4R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News 4 (@ABCNews4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCNews4\/status\/1274741122259193856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 907 new confirmed cases and 1 new probable case of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, and 9 additional confirmed deaths. There are currently 692 hospital beds occupied by patients<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94232\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94233,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94232\/revisions\/94233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}